Earth's History Flocab

Earth's History Flocab

8th Grade

15 Qs

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Earth's History Flocab

Earth's History Flocab

Assessment

Quiz

Science

8th Grade

Hard

NGSS
MS-LS4-1, MS-ESS1-4, MS-ESS2-3

+3

Standards-aligned

Created by

Lisa Thompson

FREE Resource

15 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Fossil remains of a trilobite are most likely to be found in which type of rock?

igneous

volcanic

sedimentary

metamorphic

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What role do faults play in the Law of Superposition?

Faults create new types of rock.

Faults are younger than the layers they cut through.

Faults are the same age as the layers they cut through.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Many fossils of large amphibians were found in an area that is currently barren desert. Which is most likely true?

The climate of the area was once much wetter than it is now.

Amphibians were once better at surviving in dry environments.

The amphibians migrated there after a catastrophic event destroyed their habitats.

The amphibians are not native to the area and their bones were brought there by other animals.

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Which type of dating method can be used on rock layers by applying the Law of Superposition?

relative dating

absolute dating

radioactive dating

radiometric dating

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

The idea states the same processes that occurred in the past operate in the same way as they do in the present.

Absolute Dating

Relative Dating

Catastrophism

Uniformitarianism

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Fossils can tell us all of the following information about an organism except:

How the animals might have traveled

What kinds of food the organism eats

What type of environment the organism may have lived in

The organism's life expectancy (or how long the organism will live) 

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Media Image

Several different fossils were found in rock layers in a geologic column.  Above these rock layers, the fossils were almost nonexistent.  Which most likely explains these observations?

nonconformity occurred

the organisms migrated.

a period of mass extinction occurred.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

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